Issues: Climate change and environmental load
Resources to help you understand potential reforms and new technologies that can be made/used to stave off unwanted climate change and reduce our world's environmental load.
- The actual food you select to eat plays a greater role in carbon output than the food miles for sourcing it. [web page]
- Neanderthal extinction linked to magnetic pole reversal. [web page]
- Algae biopanel windows absorb CO2 and produce electricity, oxygen, and biomass. [web page]
- Five 'disastrous' climatic tipping points may have already been reached, and the world is on the precipice of a new era of unpredictable climate change, new research concludes. [web page]
- For extreme climate change examples, look no further than Lytton, British Columbia in Canada. [web page]
- Fossil fuel dependency is on the wane in Western Europe. [web page]
- By 2035, all new cars and passenger trucks sold in California must be zero-emission vehicles [web page]
- Organic farming disastrously failed in Sri Lanka. [web page]
- Battling climate change by turning carbon dioxide Into stone. [web page]
- The currents of the world's oceans are about to go haywire, predicts new study. [web page]
- Vertical farming gets local. [web page]
- The historical climate record has some perturbing warnings for today's fight against global warming. [web page]
- Car manufacturer Volvo just took delivery of its first shipment of carbon-free steel. [web page]
- Upgraded trans-Euro rail sleepers could be the transport of the future. [web page]
- Saudi Arabia looking at a new electricity-free cooling technology. [web page]
- You can't fight climate change and beat it without serious investment in new nuclear power facilities. [web page]
- Earth's tropical regions suffering worse from climate change. [web page]
- Is the trad. green movement helping save the planet anymore? [web page]
- In order to completely eliminate our reliance on fossil fuels, nuclear power is our only option. [video]
- Climate change won't be solved unless China joins in the fight. [web page]
- A new blueprint for restoring and maintaining healthy ocean ecosystems. [web page]
- Why environmentalists are a greater impediment to effective climate policy than climate denialists. [web page]
- Sri Lanka facing national collapse and failed state status over organic farming madness. [web page]
- Scientists claim to have developed a new technique that can remove 99 percent of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. [web page]
- The great carbon suck-up gets a test-bed (of peat). [web page]
- How long will we have to wait for climate lockdowns? [web page]
- The first winners of Elon Musk's $100 million Carbon Removal XPrize have been announced. [web page]
- Where do global greenhouse gas emissions originate from, sector by sector? [web page]
- A selection of disruptive technologies could get us to Net Zero a lot faster - but we need to adopt them. [video]
- Sun-blocking geo-engineering research released in the USA. [web page]
- The way to net zero for Australia may lie in five solar farms, each as large as Tasmania. [web page]
- Greenpeace's ex-president chats about climate change. [video]
- Carbon capture prize announced by Elon Musk. [video]
- Solving climate change needs democracy and leveraging the free market... not Marxi-Nazi totalitarianism. [web page]
- Fixing climate change will bring great challenges and equal rewards. [video]
- The world might care about Net Zero, but China is still powering ahead with massive coal fired systems. [web page]
- The first geoengineering experiment is on the way. How worried should we be? [web page]
- Global greening, or the growth in green vegetation on the planet's land surface year after year, is the most significant benefit of emissions. NASA statistics reveal that global greening has contributed 618,000 square kilometres of additional green leaves per year, equal to three Great Britains. [web page]
- There are some ways that global warming is good for humanity. [web page]
- Using Geoengineering to fight climate change. [web page]
- The Global Warming Policy Forum [web site]
- We shouldn't lose heart about our fight against climate change... there're a range of man-made environmental disasters we've tackled and beaten. [web page]
- As a fixation with organic farming "in tune with nature" sparked an unsustainable but foreseeable economic disaster, as eco-extremism has dragged Sri Lanka to its knees. [web page]
- Elon Musk offers a massive new carbon capture prize. [web page]
- Australia's iron ore billionaire plans a zero-carbon future. [web page]
- Hemp conversion means smart carbon capture. [video]
- Many climate scare stories are based on the IPCC’s RCP 8.5 scenario which is an unlikely worst case. What gives? [web page]
- The collapse of bees in the USA is symptomatic of the load our human overpopulation is putting on the Earth. [video]
- Is it possible to modify the DNA of plants to aid in the battle against climate change? [web page]
- The Texas snap-freeze reminds people why a new Little Ice Age would be unwanted climate change, too. [web page]
- The development of a new method for capturing and converting carbon for ethylene synthesis. [web page]
- De-trashing the world's oceans just moved a step closer to reality. [web page]
- Environmentalism and the U.S. working class. [web page]
- Is the world's fierce levels of population growth about to tail off? [web page]
- The green economy argues its case by arguing for a better, richer economy - not a hair shirt. [video]
- Dubai's efforts to battle back against growing deserts. [web page]
- Plastic-eating super-enzyme could munch through our waste problem. [web page]
- Radical collaboration will be needed to disrupt the climate change trajectory. [video]
- When the oil runs out, so does humanity - unless it can switch to a different energy source. [web page]
- There's a tech-driven way to beat climate change while increasing the globe's energy supplies. [web page]
- New technology aims to intercept plastic pollution in the rivers before it reaches the oceans. [web page]
- Can geo-engineering with atmospheric dust slow global warming? [web page]
- The wonder substance graphene may have discovered its calling card: it will aid in the decarbonization of industry, the production of cleaner concrete, and the production of hydrogen. [web page]
- The battle against climate change by trapping carbon in stone. [web page]
- Stripping carbon from the air becomes possible on scale. [web page]
- Eco-warriors have been sounding the alarm about rising temperatures for years, so why haven't we heeded their advice here in the UK? [web page]
- The American government is creating a plan for research into solar geoengineering. [web page]
- Global warming is punishing Greece - and the country isn't coping that well. [web page]
- Carbon capture goes direct with balloon tech concept. [web page]
- Carbon capture by planting seaweed is now a thing. [web page]
- Ocean geoengineering is a step closer. [web page]
- The U.S. National Academy of Sciences has published a new paper detailing six approaches for making the seas carbon dioxide-sinks. [web page]
- According to a recent study, the worst-case climate change scenarios are very improbable. [web page]
- Okra and other slimy plants widely used in cooking have extracts that may help remove harmful microplastics from wastewater. [web page]
- Hydrogen home storage moves closer to reality. [video]
- New thoughts on the impact of climate change on the world. [web page]
- If you think the world's population is a problem now, just wait till the demographic collapse hits. [web page]
- Scientists used artificial intelligence to develop an enzyme that breaks down plastic in a week rather than a century. [web page]
- A relatively small number of coal plants produce the lion's share of pollution, finds a new study. [web page]
- Modern industrial civilisation can currently only be fuelled by two sources: fossil fuels and nuclear electricity. [web page]
- Growing products from biomaterials is on the horizon. [web page]
- Glacier melt is increasing at a rapid pace. [web page]
- According to new statistics, China has been the world's second-largest polluter since 1850. [web page]
- What choices do we have to minimise greenhouse gas emissions from food if we want to achieve our global climate targets? [web page]
- Is the Arctic Ice on the verge of disappearing? [web page]
- The wet bulb temperature issue becoming a serious issue for climate change impacts. [video]
- Why we should be upping our game with renewable power - if we care about the economy. [video]
- How clever tech can disrupt the onset of climate change. [web page]
- Co-operating to solve the the ozone layer problem may point the way to working to beat climate change. [web page]
- How algae can be deployed to mitigate climate change. [video]
- The ability to bind carbon emissions into mud has been shown in a current research of a coastal marsh in Scotland. [web page]
- Could greening the Sahara desert combat climate change? [video]
- The British attempt to reach Net Zero is being seriously hampered by a lack of joined-up thinking. [web page]
- A new fund will be established to grow a technology that experts believe will be critical in combating climate change. Stripe, Alphabet, and other companies will spend about $1 billion on carbon removal. [web page]
- Can the steel industry ever really go carbon neutral? [web page]
- Monash University researchers claim to have discovered a cost-effective technique to make ammonia without the massive carbon dioxide emissions it now produces. [video]
- According to a new study, corn ethanol is worse for the environment than gasoline. [web page]
- IKEA-style ready-to-assemble housing gets a boost with recent corporate merger. [web page]
- How low carbon housing needs to be constructed. [video]
- Climate change is an engineering problem, not a replacement religion for the real church. [video]